The Dictionary of Jewish Biography

by Dan Cohn-Sherbok

Book Overview

From Abraham to Saul Bellow, from Moses Maimonides to Woody Allen, from the Baal Shem Tov to Albert Einstein, this comprehensive dictionary of Jewish biographies provides a first point of entry into the fascinating richness of the Jewish heritage. Compiled with the assistance of a distinguished group of scholars, theDictionary of Jewish Biographyprovides a rapid reference to the biographies of almost 4000 Jewish men and women who, over the past four...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195223918
• ISBN13: 9780195223910
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 374 Pages
• Weight: 1.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.8" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

Capsule biographies do not tell us enough

The idea of this work is to give capsule biographies of a large number of Jews from all different areas of human endeavor. This is in itself admirable, but the length of the entries, usually a few brief lines, makes them into telegraphic bits of information, without any element of story. Thus 'The Dictionary of Jewish Biography' ed. by Geoffrey Wigoder is if far from perfect, nonetheless still more useful than this present volume.